A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Lynx, lyncis or lyncos (s.f.III) also (s.m.III) (Glare) > Gk. Lynx, gen.sg. lyn[gk]os (s. both masc. & fem. III): a lynx; lygkeios,-a,-on (Gk.adj.), lynx-like.

Felis lynx, Linnaeus, 1758 Lynx,-yncis (s.m.III), abl.sg. lynce: masc. = cf. epithets Lynx Canadensis, L. pardinus, L. rufus.

- Fabii Columnae Lyncei Minus Cognitarum Rariorumque Nostro Coelo Orientium Stirpium Ekphrasis (1616); the eckphrasis [i.e. description] of Fabius Columna of the Lincean Academy of plants less known and rather rare arising in our climatic region [i.e. latitude].

NOTE: The Accademia dei Lincei, Italian = “Academy of the Lynx-Eyed;” Eng. = the Lincean Academy in Rome.

The Academy was “founded in the Papal States in 1603 by Federico Cesi; the academy was named after the lynx, an animal whose sharp vision symbolizes the observational prowess that science requires. Galileo Galilei was the intellectual centre of the academy and adopted "Galileo Galilei Linceo" as his signature. "The Lincei did not long survive the death in 1630 of Cesi, its founder and patron," and "disappeared in 1651" [Wikipedia, “Accademia dei Lincei” March 2021];

[cf. L., Lynceus,-ei (s.m.III), also Lyncea (acc.sg.); also Lynceum = Gk. Lynkeus, “lynx-eyed,” a king of Argos; also one of the Argonauts: “an Argonaut, famed for his keen sight;” (Lynceus,-a,-um (adj.A): “of Lynceus the Argonaut; resembling Lynceus (in keenness of sight)” (Glare); the name derived from ‘Lynx;’ cf. Lynceus,-ei (s.m.III), also Lyncea (acc.sg.); also Lynceum: “an Argonaut, famed for his keen sight” (Lynceus,-a,-um (adj.A): “of Lynceus the Argonaut; resembling Lynceus (in keenness of sight)” (Glare).